About the position
Qualcomm is looking for an experienced Product Manager in the Gaming Platforms Business Unit to help strategize and grow impactful new product portfolio through partner product integrations. Qualcomm is enabling a world where everyone and everything can be intelligently connected. You interact with products and technologies made possible by Qualcomm every day, including 5G-enabled smartphones that double as pro-level cameras and gaming devices, smarter vehicles and cities, and the technology behind the smart, connected factories that manufactured your latest purchase. Qualcomm 5G and AI innovations are the power behind the connected intelligent edge. You'll find our technologies behind and inside the innovations that deliver significant value across multiple industries and to billions of people every day. Snapdragon Gaming Platforms is a new and fast-growing Qualcomm business venture, which is revolutionizing the gaming industry. Snapdragon gaming platforms is the leading platform for mobile and handheld gaming today. Snapdragon gaming platform provides always-on, always-connected experiences with the highest picture quality, robust performance, and energy efficiency. This helps gamers experience immersive graphics, responsive interactivity for their favorite games that they can experience for long time without charging. With Qualcomm's leadership in mobile, OEMs and console makers now can expect to build devices in thinner and lighter formfactor than ever. This role will be central in making Qualcomm successful in the Gaming Platforms industry. The successful candidate will have good software, hardware and gaming/graphics industry knowledge of what it takes to build great gaming devices. The position requires external technical account and relationship management with strong interpersonal and communication skills. The role will also involve strong business and finance and marketing skills necessary for influencing and delivering successful partner products.
Responsibilities
- Interacts with game industry partners like OEMs, ISVs, OS vendors, etc. to understand their products/roadmaps/pricing strategies.
- Influences and aligns partner roadmaps with Qualcomm's goals.
- Defines a comprehensive internal technology and GTM strategy that includes roadmap, pricing and plan.
- Collaborates with key external partners to define key goals and success criteria for each partner project (e.g. milestones, performance, cost, schedules, risks, priorities).
- Working with global product, engineering, program, finance, marketing, sales and BD stakeholders executes on individual partner roadmap creating a strong business impact.
- Drives partner product GTM and launch strategies through co-marketing opportunities such as industry conferences, press/media and ensures successful partner product launch.
- Prepares and delivers highly complex and high-stakes technical and business presentations to variety of internal and external audiences regarding product roadmaps that explain and demonstrate products to customers and integrates customer feedback into project roadmaps.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, Humanities, or related field.
- 5+ years of Product Management or related work experience.
Nice-to-haves
- 6+ years of technology partnerships/product/program management experience.
- MBA or relevant business experience in finance, forecasting, accounting, marketing.
- Experience managing global partners with complex technology and business implications.
- Engineering background or relevant knowledge of gaming consoles and handheld.
- Knowledge of hardware: GPU, CPU, Memory, Display, Sensor technologies, power and thermals.
- Knowledge of software: Android, Windows, Linux.
- Experience managing, influencing, negotiating with external partners.
- Experience working with forecasting, revenue and/or project financials.
Benefits
- Competitive annual discretionary bonus program.
- Opportunity for annual RSU grants.
- Highly competitive benefits package designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play.
